It's easy to say (and we of /movie certainly did it at the time) that "Chernobyl" was the most important, frightening and relevant horror story in 2019. Based on the true story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's disaster in 1986 and its consequences, HBO's grade and intense mini -mini He showed the disaster in dark and visceral details that, at times, seemed to be a documentary for an incredibly terrible event.

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Of course, it is worth noting that very few people actually have any kind of personal reference point of nuclear disasters, so that the viewer who does not know the details of the Chernobyl real -life accident may be difficult to determine whether the realism of the show is incessant to the show. After all, Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin has since continued to make "the last of us", which can often be just as visceral, but apparently based on a video game series. Given that, let's look at how the FBO's real "Chernobyl" really is.

Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin knew that the science of the show is very importantAnd as such, the show was intended to make things true as its historical plays minimizes medium permits. This is not exactly difficult when you think about how shocking many parts of the true story it was based on. Adam Hyginbotham, author of "Midnight in Chernobyl", said CBS News That the dramatic scene of workers in the liquidator who should remove the radioactive remains of the roof of the power plant in episode 4, the "happiness of all humanity", can basically pass as a documentary:

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"They were timed for the amount of time they could have been there, in seconds, to limit their exposure to what was considered as safe as it could."

The commitment to make the show was not limited to the things that happened around the title nuclear power plant as accurately as possible. "Chernobyl" painstakingly bears the specific look of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, to the extent that places, clothing and objects are almost unchanging. Also, several key scenes showing the way the Soviet system worked are particularly faithful in reality. Episode 1, "1:23:45", captures the core of the Soviet bureaucracy in the post-car (in) actions of the city's leader Arkarkov (Donald Sumper), who decided to quarantine the city and retain the residents despite the risks they present. Similarly, the hearing of the Central Committee in Episode 5, "Vishnaya Pamatat", accurately shows the way the tests worked at the time. Moreover, people with first -hand experience for the disaster They praised the road Chernobyl caught the general atmosphere and reactions of people across the board.

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Of course, Chernobyl also took creative freedoms. For example, a heroic volunteer trio Alexei Annanko (Baltazar Breer), Valeri Dispalov (Philip Barininines) and Boris Baranov (Oscar Gisse) Were not the first men to enter the basement filled with water The power plant in the event shown in episode 2, "Please, stay calm", and they were not applauded or rewarded After completing their dangerous mission.

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However, the biggest differences between real life and Chernobyl are the way the show shows people. The minisers liberally suggest that the authorities would have the people to shoot at the slightest opportunity for disobedience, which was not something that the Soviet Union did in the era of Mikhail Gorbachev-Instead of it, it was more than the pre-second World War of Soviet life, and at the moment most people were simply resigning.

Scientists at the show, Valeri Legasov (Aredari Harris) and Ulana Homojuk (Emily Watson), are also quite inaccurate. The show is pretty open about Homojuk as a fictional character that is a merger of many investigators of the Chernobyl incident, but even without taking into account, and she and Legasov are away Too confrontative and can call the higher windows for their search to discover the truths behind the incident to have any place of influence within the Soviet system. In reality, the Soviet system really did not have the kind of individual heroes and Western -style "Chernobyl" villains often focused, and it was known that Chernobyl power plant was also dangerous before the disaster. As Adam Hyginbotham put in an interview with CBS news:

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"In reality, so many nuclear scientists knew everyone together that there were problems with this reactor - the problems that led the end of the explosion and disaster."